Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of core book

KNOW, O PRINCE, THAT BETWEEN THE YEARS WHEN THE OCEANS DRANK ATLANTIS AND THE GLEAMING CITIES, AND THE YEARS OF THE RISE OF THE SONS OF ARYAS, THERE WAS AN AGE UNDREAMED OF, WHEN SHINING KINGDOMS LAY SPREAD ACROSS THE WORLD LIKE BLUE MANTLES BENEATH THE STARS...

Robert E. Howard’s Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of takes you into the world of Conan the Barbarian, where heroes raise blood-spattered swords against dire sorcery, exotic lands beckon to the daring, danger and treasure lurks in forgotten ruins, and where loathsome creatures haunt the spaces beneath the earth… as well as in the throne-rooms of mighty kingdoms!

Seek your fortune in forbidden tombs or upon blood-soaked battlefields. Cast dark and terrible spells of unimaginable power, at the price of your soul. Sail upon untamed seas to lands where no human in living memory has walked. Fight for the fate of civilization — or barbarism — on a savage frontier!

Create your own legend in this decadent and violent world.

Complete 2d20 game system, including combat, skills, talents, sorcery, and equipment suitable for adventuring in the age before history.

An extensive gazetteer covering the whole of Conan’s world: featuring fair Aquilonia, gloomy Cimmeria, magic-haunted Stygia, all the way to the far-off steaming jungles of Khitai.

The update contains "Conan_-_Character_Sheet_-_Basic_-_No_background.pdf" which, unfortunately, does have a background. Please provide a character sheet with no background.
Also, it would be very helpful to have a "no background" compendium of the essential combat tables.

Ingolf SApril 25, 2017 6:39 am UTC

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Modiphius released optimized PDFs of the Core Books for the Kickstarter Backers that are about 70 MB on March 31st. Is it possible to update the PDF here as well to the optimized format? It will save a bandwidth and a lot of trouble.

Sam HFebruary 22, 2017 1:58 am UTC

Quick question for the publishers/developers. I backed at the PFD Master level after the Kickstarter concluded and have already received the final PDF. Because it's distributed outside DriveThru it obviously isn't on my library here, I can't rate or review. Is there a plan to address this?

It's a minor issue (after all, I do have the game), but I've been enjoying Conan tremendously and would like to write a review.

With that out of the way, my group's already having great times with this system and all the obvious effort that's gone into it! It's an exciting and dynamic pulp-action game, just a ton of fun. Congratulations to everyone involved in its production.

Dani JFebruary 26, 2017 10:22 am UTC

I backed the same pledge during the kickstarter. If we want to write a review, we still have option for writing it down here, and phrase our rating for this book.only question is, if there should be any updated version for pdfs, would we get the same advantage as Drivethru/OneBookShelf does?

Chris BFebruary 27, 2017 10:19 am UTC

PUBLISHER

Hi guys, yes backers will be updated via Pledge Manager, once all the pdf's are issued we'll add them to drivethrough accounts as well. We have a complex list of backers for each book which would require a lot of admin which is why we're keeping the books on PledgeManager for now.

Manuel ZFebruary 19, 2017 10:15 am UTC

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Very good work people!
I just peeked, but both this pdf that the rules seem to be great.

To me, this is a more simple and light version of the Mutant Chronicles rules, but in a good way.
I have non played, but i'm getting ready to play one of the prepared adventures made available (which are very interesting)

Again: very good work people.
I await the paper version to buy.

Andrew BFebruary 09, 2017 3:50 am UTC

I have two questions. One, is this setting potentially going to be adapted to any other systems? If it goes the way of Mutant Chronicles, that would mean Savage Worlds, and I would like seeing an "official" Conan the Barbarian Savage Worlds setting done, as it is my system of choice.

Two, and on the other hand regarding the system changing for the setting, this 2d20 system is rather interesting. Do you think there would be any chance of a "core rules" version of the 2d20 system being published? While I can understand if that is unlikely, a sort of universal version of this system would be most interesting. The lack of such a general framework is why I haven't looked into the Ubiquity System stuff, among other things, and I thing for the system itself, I would be most interested in that.

There is no urgency to these questions, I am just curious. Please get back to me if you can.

Chris BFebruary 27, 2017 10:20 am UTC

PUBLISHER

Conan won't appear in other rules systems sorry :-)

Yes we are planning a system neutral book with a license to let people produce their own games.

February 05, 2017 8:30 pm UTC

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The two main PDFs are downloading as 11 and 34 MB, neither opens in any of several programs. Whatever you've uploaded here, they aren't good PDFs.

Luke WFebruary 05, 2017 9:59 pm UTC

That is only a partial download as both are bigger than that. Your connection likely crashed during the download corrupting the file. Try saving to Dropbox direct, download the files separately, or try a faster and/or more stable connection.

Jory BFebruary 05, 2017 6:25 am UTC

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Hello I'm having issues downloading either the Regular or Printer Friendly Version, for some reason they are just failing to load.

Luke WFebruary 05, 2017 9:14 am UTC

It's a big download, so it may be worth trying to download it again or as individual PDFs rather than a bundle as chances of corruption are high.

Jory BFebruary 05, 2017 2:40 pm UTC

PURCHASER

I've tried multiple times on my Laptop and Iphone: on the Laptop any instance of me downloading either the regular version or the printer friendly version ends with a message saying failed to load or the files are damaged. On my Iphone they just crash the page or I end up with a black page at the end.

Chris BFebruary 05, 2017 4:41 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

Hi Jory try raising it with DriveThru support, have you tried a different web browser?

Jory BFebruary 05, 2017 6:48 pm UTC

PURCHASER

Will do. I used a couple of browsers and still the same conclusion.

Mike Wevanne SFebruary 13, 2017 7:02 pm UTC

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Jory B have you try to download on the store page instead your library page?

Jason MFebruary 04, 2017 1:35 pm UTC

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The full version still does not work for me. on computer or ipad.

Barry CFebruary 04, 2017 3:01 am UTC

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Where are typos being reported? P100, in the belit "queen of the black coast" box; legendry->legend.

David KFebruary 02, 2017 5:24 pm UTC

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I can not open the printerfriendly pdf on my tablet. The Full Version looks nice, but loading the pages took forever (10-30 seconds per page).

Luke WFebruary 02, 2017 6:24 pm UTC

The full PDF runs fine on my aged iPad1. Might pay to redownload in case of corruption,

Luke WFebruary 02, 2017 6:24 pm UTC

The full PDF runs fine on my aged iPad1. Might pay to redownload in case of corruption,

John DFebruary 02, 2017 2:34 am UTC

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The file labeled printer-friendly seems to be the full-color copy (131MB), and the file not so labeled downloads but won't open because the file "is corrupt or not a PDF" (92MB). Just letting you know.

Chris BFebruary 02, 2017 2:57 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

checking this but I've not seen any other reports - have you tried downloading again. the printer friendly version is correct .

John DFebruary 02, 2017 4:54 pm UTC

PURCHASER

Weird: I've just tried again, and suddenly it's telling me the non-printer-friendly PDF of the core rules is 156MB, not 92. Apparently, the problem was on my end, though I'd be hard pressed to explain how or why.

Anyway, thanks for following up so quickly.

kaymakli BFebruary 01, 2017 6:55 pm UTC

Any word on getting a physical copy of this book?

Chris BFebruary 01, 2017 6:59 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

Beautiful offset print copies will be in retail in June, and available from Modiphius webstore from May once backers have been shipped.

John PFebruary 01, 2017 7:01 pm UTC

The official printing will be starting soon. Would keep an eye out on your favored retailers over the next few months. EDIT Chris beat me to it.

If the quality of their hardback is like that of their Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition book, I'll be quite happy.

Jay WFebruary 01, 2017 6:35 pm UTC

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Quick Preview doesn't appear to show anything.

Martin KFebruary 01, 2017 5:46 pm UTC

PURCHASER

This is a massive file size, even for this page count. Any hope of getting that down to something more managable in the future?

Chris BFebruary 01, 2017 6:22 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

Hi it's two main book files - colour and printer friendly plus map and character sheets.

Chris BFebruary 01, 2017 7:09 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

Were changing the zip file over to the individual files so you can choose what to download now

Luke WFebruary 01, 2017 7:15 pm UTC

The corebook is 150MB. Large but more manageable than the total 300MB makes it seem. You can download the pdfs individually.

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